First, apologies to Chr0m0ly if this becomes a thread ambush. And full credit gugie for all his lovely work, as well as the connection to Dave Cain of Waxwings bags.

Some highlights below, but many more photos can be found here:

https://dfrost.smugmug.com/Bicycles/...otos/i-Wk623zs

The whole thing works works fantastically well. Handling and steering are great, and get better (more stable at low speeds) as weight is added. Very easy to ride out of the saddle, in fact it seems to encourage that behavior. I’ve ridden it over 1800 miles since mods, usually with just the rack bag, but also including a small tour with low riders, and occasionally with a heavy (up to 25 lbs) load in the panniers. That tour was extremely windy, and the steering was good with panniers, although they were a bit of a sail when it hit from the side on a fast downhill.



All the work he performed using only the fork. The tasks:
Reraked fork to low trail, adding 8mm of rake.
Added braze-on posts for centerpull brake (Dia-Compe G)
Added second dropout eyelets for low-rider pannier rack (it already had fender eyelets)
Added mid-fork eyelets for front bag rack and low rider upper mount
Custom front bag rack using those centerpull posts as the upper attachment
Custom modular low-rider pannier rack (breaks down into three pieces that fit inside panniers for transport)
And one of Mark’s excellent stem sleeve-mounted decaleurs, incorporating threaded stop for the front brake housing since my headset stack is short.
Fork was powder-coated gloss black after its mods and I reapplied gold fork crown highlighting.

The pannier rack tops are actually level and parallel to the bag rack, unlike what this photo angle implies.




Mark inverted his decaleur design, with my tubes going up instead of down, which fits my big frame+tall bars beautifully. Mark and Dave Cain coordinated so that bag, rack and decaleur would fit.


Complete but without the low riders and fenders. SKS fenders fit nicely over the 700x28’s.